Sunday, March 18, 2018

We're staying home for Spring Break, and it was a crazy busy weekend. Part of that is our faults. And that's ok, but it meant that they didn't really have dibs on much of anything we did until this evening. So it was time for them to choose from their List. We had discussed things we wanted to do earlier in the week, so we'll see which ones we cross off. Tonight, the first was...

The boys wanted to have an "Epic Mario Kart Battle".

We normally don't allow them to play video games on Sunday night, or on any school night really.

But on the weekends when they are allowed, they have to stop at dinner time. It tends to suck them in, and they forget things, and get snappish at bedtime. That was true tonight too. Jacob forfeited the rest of his race, when he got mad and threw his controller. Then he cried because we wouldn't give it back. But the rest of us had a good time playing. I still stink. That's ok, it's not the most important for me to be good at the game, I just get a kick out of the kids saying, "Rainbow Road is my downfall." and Jacob saying stuff like, "I want to do Rainbow Smash!" What's Rainbow Smash? It's my downfall. Who am I kidding?! They are all my downfall.

I came in 12th twice, and tied Jacob. He is convinced that coming in 12th place (out of 12) really means he wins. Well, I guess we all won a bit when we finished by laughing.

The littles had Gymnastics in the morning, and Jacob had a birthday party for a school friend at noon.

While I took Jacob to meet Moana at a Birthday Party for his school friend.

While we were there, the big boys went to a Piano Theory class.

We learned during the afternoon that our friends the Webers were in town for a Dance Competition, in which 2 of their kids participate. So we basically hunted them down just to be able to see them.

We tried to catch Jack dancing, but they were too fast for us, so we just hooked up at the hotel. After some debate we opted to get pizza and bring it back. So did half the city, the Keystone Sheraton was Crazy!

We chose to have a floor Pizza Picnic in the hallway with all the ballrooms, because nothing was going on in that hall.

We brought the crazy.

Initially, there was shyness between the kids. It was our kids and their kids kind of separated.

But then we started telling them what all their favorite things, they all love Hamilton, and Star Wars, and Legos. Suddenly, they had things to talk about.

And they are crazy... just like our kids.

They ran rampant in that hallway for the better part of 2 hours, and they had a great time.

We got to chat with our friends, and get to know their kids a bit.

And it was Awesome.

They even let me take a few photos.

They had to do a crazy one first.

Then they posed sweetly for me.

Remember when there were only one for each of us?

Then we had to repeat the awesomesauce photos.

It's very hard to get 6 kids to keep still.

They are kind of Awesome.

And here we are. Chris took this, and 3 others and all are a little blurry, oh well.

We've been friends since before we all started dating. Joe was Eric's roomie in college. And when Joe had a bit more hair, it was red, and he was one of Eric's Groomsmen. It was kind of Perfect timing to see him this weekend, since it's been 20 years since he stood up for us. It had been almost 4 years since we'd gotten to see them. It's been a rough year so far for the Weber family, but they have kept their smiles and humor, and they could continue to use Prayer. It just did so much good for us to find them. It reminded me of old times to sit and laugh with them, and worth every bit of the insanity of chasing them down, driving all over town, and being gone all day.